Playing Card Drawer
Random
Builds a fresh standard deck on load, shuffles it with crypto.getRandomValues so each card's position is genuinely uniform, and lets you draw cards off the top. Drawn cards stay drawn — the deck counter goes down — so you can keep dealing until the deck is empty without ever seeing a repeat. Useful for online card games, magic tricks, decisions weighted by suit colour, or just teaching probability.
Press Draw to deal cards.
Shuffle uses crypto.getRandomValues + Fisher-Yates. Drawn cards leave the deck until you reset or redraw.
How to use
- Set how many cards to draw and whether to include jokers.
- "Draw" peels that many off the current deck; "Redraw" reshuffles a fresh deck first.
- "Reset" shuffles a fresh deck without drawing anything.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the shuffle actually random?
- Each swap uses crypto.getRandomValues, which is a CSPRNG in modern browsers. The Fisher-Yates pass touches every position once, so every permutation of the deck is equally likely.
- What's the order of cards inside a suit?
- A, 2, 3, …, 10, J, Q, K — Ace is treated as 1 (low). If you need ace-high logic for poker rankings, just remember that A and K are at opposite ends.
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